Journalists covering the conflict inside Syria are being killed and kidnapped on what appears to be a daily basis. Forces from both sides, pro and anti-government, are meting out rough justice to reporters, photographers and cameramen.

On Monday, Ahmad Sattouf, a Syrian correspondent for Al-Alam, an Iranian satellite broadcaster supportive of the Syrian government, was abducted. The Al-Alam office was ransacked.

Sattouf's kidnapping is the eighth documented in the past month by the New York-based press freedom watchdog, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). And at least three journalists working for state-run news outlets have been killed in the past two weeks.

As I reported two days ago, four men working for the pro-government television station al-Ikhbariya were seized in a Damascus suburb by rebels belonging to the Free Syrian Army. One of them, Hatem Abu Yehia, is believed to be dead.

On Saturday, Ali Abbas, head of domestic news at SANA, was killed by gunmen at his Damascus home. A SANA spokesman said he was killed s part of a campaign to silence government-aligned media.

On the same day, Bara'a Yusuf al-Bushi, who contributed reports and footage to international outlets including the pan-Arab news channel Al-Arabiya, Al-Jazeera, and Sky News, was killed in government shelling of Al-Tal. Al-Bushi had defected to the Free Syrian Army in May from his mandatory government military service.

State TV presenter Mohamed al-Saeed is believed dead. Al-Nusra Front, an armed Islamist group linked to Al-Qaeda, claimed to have beheaded him on August 4 after kidnapping him on 19 July in Damascus.

On 3 August, Talal Janbakeli, a cameraman for Syrian state TV, was kidnapped by armed men from a group called Haroun al-Rashid Brigades. The group posted a video on YouTube with a frightened Janbakeli saying he had been captured.

On 6 August, a bomb ripped through the third floor of the Syrian state TV and radio building in Damascus, wounding at least three people.

As I write this blog I am reminded yet again of the bravery of the BBC's excellent foreign correspondent, Orla Guerin, who is telling Radio 4's Today programme what she has witnessed in the Kurdish area of northern Syria.